KUVO on Monday will introduce a new local morning show: “First Take,” 6-8 a.m. weekdays, a mix of music and news. It replaces “The Takeaway,” the John Hockenberry program, which is moving to mid-day and shrinking to one hour. KUVO will no longer carry it.

Score a point for noncommercial, non-syndicated, local radio.

Carlos Lando, COO and program director, will return to the KUVO airwaves with jazz and blues; Steve Chavis, who joined the station this year, will cover the issues with an emphasis on “unheard voices and under-represented perspectives.” (Chavis was at KBCO years ago.)

National news from NPR will still run at top of hour and the show will have access to content from “The Takeaway.” “First Take” will produce local news and features. In fact, Chavis said, as a swing state, Colorado may be producing content for the national show. For starters, the team hopes to provide content from the Oct. 3 political debate in Denver to “The Takeaway.”

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.